Brooms and Bellys..

[Lump]

I really don't get peoples nark on belly/chin putters. Everybody has the option to use them. If you don't want to use them... simply don't. IMO its a none issue.

FYI. I don't use one before someone peeps up

 

[richart]

I had money on you having tried one Homer.

So you've never tried a mates new putter on the putting green before a round. You have had a sheltered golfing life. Or is it more a case of another that feels the need to have another sly dig at my posts

Must admit i have never known anyone with one, and never tried one, so yes i have lead a sheltered golf life. I did give up golf for a lot of years and only came back to it three years ago. Still had a persimmon driver, and wooden woods ! All the new technology had passed me by, but i am catching up.

No sly dig intended, i'm not that subtle Homer

 

[PhilTheFragger]

They can make them as long as they want, you just shouldn't be allowed to anchor it against any part of your body (belly(s), chest, chin(s)).

Imurgs problem is that his gut's so big even a 32 incher is "attached"

Im Dead

Fragger

 

[HomerJSimpson]

They can make them as long as they want, you just shouldn't be allowed to anchor it against any part of your body (belly(s), chest, chin(s)).

Imurgs problem is that his gut's so big even a 32 incher is "attached"

Im Dead

Fragger

Especially as you told me he hasn't seen his feet since he was 25 either

 

[Imurg]

I think I'm gonna start a list like Bob's.
And you two are top!

And Fragger - more than you can possibly imagine. It's going to be slow and Oh so painful

 

[didsbury_duffer]

Personally I'd ban all brooms, bellys and the so-called 'chipper'. The stroke with a broom or a belly is not a proper golf stroke, as quoted recently by Tom Watson in an interview with MH. The chipper was probably introduced for those players that had the yips with their wedges. I can't use a 3-wood off the deck, but I'm not looking for some new fangled club that will make it easier for me.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

How are they cheating???

I seem to remember Langer using a 'normal' length putter and his left arm went down half the length of the shaft - is that cheating as well???

If belly/broom handle putters are cheating then so are GPS.

Now, let's fight to the death.....

 

[Snelly]

The powers that be made an error in allowing these clubs into golf.

I think they should all be banned.

The reason is that they give an extra touch point on the body to connect with the club and that is not fair, not golf and should not be allowed.

You should hold your putter in your hands and that is that.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

The powers that be made an error in allowing these clubs into golf.

I think they should all be banned.

The reason is that they give an extra touch point on the body to connect with the club and that is not fair, not golf and should not be allowed.

You should hold your putter in your hands and that is that.

What about if you use a belly putter but it doesn't 'hinge' on your belly??? Is it still illegal???

 

[Snelly]

No. An extra connection from the club to the body should not be allowed IMO. Not touching you would be fine, but then what would be the point?

 

[USER1999]

No. An extra connection from the club to the body should not be allowed IMO. Not touching you would be fine, but then what would be the point?

It's what Cabrera does.

 

[MashieNiblick]

Personally I'd ban all brooms, bellys and the so-called 'chipper'. The stroke with a broom or a belly is not a proper golf stroke, as quoted recently by Tom Watson in an interview with MH. The chipper was probably introduced for those players that had the yips with their wedges. I can't use a 3-wood off the deck, but I'm not looking for some new fangled club that will make it easier for me.

I'm with you (and Watson) on the broomhandles and bellys but actually "chippers" have been around for a while

http://cgi.ebay.com/CHIPPER-MACGREGOR-11...=item56362e0e48

Effectively just a lofted putter and if you think about it they would make sense given what the greens and aprons were like back in the day. Probably pre-dated the "wedge" type club we use with the big flange (invented in the 1920's by Gene Sarazen iirc) which caught on with people who couldn't get out of bunkers with their niblicks.

Oh my god, I've just defended chippers (hangs head in shame)

Most of us can't use a small headed persimmon driver but are we looking for some new fangled club (e.g. a 460cc titanium monster) that will make it easier for us - course we are.

Maybe like Watson also says we should be reducing the size of driver heads.